Fogg met with manager Clint Hurdle earlier in the week,
concerned that he wouldn't get his 30th start, which would trigger
a $50,000 contract incentive.

Hurdle said he'd give him the ball if he was more aggressive,
and he was.

"I think what I've done has warranted me being able to start
the rest of the year," Fogg said. "I've had some bad games, but
this is my 10th win today. I don't think I deserve to be taken out
of the rotation."

Although there was financial incentive to start again, Fogg
(10-9) said he was more concerned about ending this season on a
high note than in pocketing more money.

"That's the other part of the game, but you want to go out
there and win, that's your main goal," Fogg said. "You play this
game to win, you don't play this game to reach contractual
incentives."

Fogg called the meeting with his manager after reporters began
speculating that his remaining starts would go to young pitchers
the organization is evaluating after Fog went five straight starts
without a win.

"I just felt it was my right to know whether he was doing it or
not. I went in there and asked him," Fogg said. "We had a good
conversation. He said I needed to step it up and turn it around.
There was no doubt that I had been struggling,

"I wanted to prove I was still capable of going out there and
pitching and I think I did that tonight."

Fogg gave up three earned runs, eight hits and two walks in 6
2/3 innings for his first win since Aug. 17.

"I thought he pitched a very professional game," Hurdle said.
"He had been on the downside of things and struggled. We had a
nice conversation before he made this start, I just told him he
needed to pitch more aggressive. He needed to use both sides of the
plate, he needed to pitch to both sides of the plate and not just
to guys at the bottom of the order. He needed to do that to
everybody."

He sure did, recording 10 groundball outs.

Todd Helton gave Colorado the lead for good on a wet and chilly
night when he smacked a two-run double off the center-field wall in
the fifth to put the Rockies ahead 4-3.

After Braves third baseman Willy Aybar made a nice, barehanded
play to nail Kaz Matsui at the plate for the first out, Helton sentTim Hudson's next pitch off the fence in center field to erase
Atlanta's 3-2 lead.

Rockies rookie Jeff Baker hit his fourth homer this week, a
two-run shot that traveled 421 feet into the rock pile beyond the
center-field wall and gave Colorado a 2-1 lead in the first. Jeff
Francoeur had singled home a run in the top half.

Brian McCann, who has 54 RBI since the All-Star break, restored
the Braves' lead with a two-run double in a driving rain in the
third inning, putting Atlanta ahead 3-2. He added an RBI double offRay King with one out in the eighth that pulled Atlanta to 6-4
after Matsui's run-scoring single off Hudson in the sixth.